Home Tour: Planned perfection in San Clemente

Family drew Charles and Kimberly Nicholson away from their Costa Mesa home down to San Clemente, despite the fact that Charles is the proprietor of the legendary dive bar Goat Hill Tavern in Costa Mesa.
“My 15-year-old son from a previous marriage lives in San Clemente, and Kim’s father moved there, too, from San Diego,” Charles explains, “so we were down here all the time. We did love our sleepy little beach town, but the family really brought us here. It just made sense